Fractions
Break marks are marks made with branches of wood species (broken or cut off from plants) that are used by hunters during hunting and on certain social occasions.
execution
These are usually leafy or needled branches of certain types of trees, the "fair types of wood", which are traditionally broken from the tree and sometimes worked with a hunting knife. The fair types of wood are fir , spruce , pine , oak and alder ( TaFiKiEiEr or EFEKT ). If the wood species suitable for breakage cannot be found in the vicinity of the place of laying, all other tree and shrub types may also be used for the breakage.
Although the hunting tradition , the break provides fractures, the hunter on winning fractures should, if possible, a pruner use. This is often carried for smaller work on the vegetation anyway, such as cutting free of sight and weft aisles, or as "rib shears". The work is made easier by the scissors and the tree from which the break is extracted is only slightly injured, in contrast to a "frayed" break, which encourages the penetration of germs, pests and fungi.
Types of fractions
A distinction is made between message breaks and custom breaks. Breaks in messages convey information for other hunters, customs breaks are customary on certain occasions.
Message breaks
- Major fraction: a sign to attract attention. A branch about arm's length is freed from the bark between the leaves or needles and laid out or hung up.
- Leading fracture: a branch half arm's length, freed from the bark between the needles or leaves, points with the grown tip in a certain direction. Leading breaks are laid out or hung in such a way that one can see from one to the other.
- Broken connection: An unprocessed branch stuck vertically into the ground marks the point where the game was hit by the hunter's bullet. This marking is important for a search if the game does not collapse and die at the "hit".
- Subsequent break: A leading break placed next to the break in the connection indicates the direction of escape of the game that has been shot at (important for a dog handler to search for it).
- Broken stand: If the hunter is assigned a certain place in the hunting area, this place is marked with a branch stuck vertically into the ground. All side shoots have been removed from this branch, except for the tip. An additional lead break shows the hunter which way to leave his stand after the hunt is over.
- Warning break: This is a branch that - freed from the bark and all side shoots - has been tied into a circle. It marks places and areas in which a danger threatens (for example an unsafe high seat or a snap trap).
- Waiting break: Two branches placed cross-shaped on top of each other mark a waiting or assembly point.
- Appropriation or possession breach: An appropriation breach is an unprocessed twig placed on the body of the game. In the case of male game, the broken end points to the head , in the case of female game the grown tip. The breach of appropriation usually hides the gunshot wound.
- Schützenbruch: An unprocessed branch is wetted with the sweat (blood) of the hunted animal and attached to the right side of the hunter's hat with the top of the leaves or needles facing outwards. It indicates to other hunters that prey has been made. Breaking worthy game is all ungulates , fox , marmot and grouse . If the hunter is alone, he will break the archer's break himself. In the context of company hunts or in the company of the hunt leader or the owner of the area, the break is presented to the successful hunter by the hunt leader on the blade of the deer catcher / hunting leaf or on his hat. Is wild by a dog handler for a non-fatal shot sought , the dog handler helps the Wild made the kill shot and handed the shooter break. The hunter divides the archer's break and sticks part of the neck (collar) of the dog that brought the game.
- Message break: This break has not yet been generally introduced and is only used very rarely. It is a subsequent break that is "decorated" with a piece of forest marking tape by knotting it. A message (paper with a note) can be found in the immediate vicinity of the grown tip (mostly "blinded" = covered).
Broken messages that are laid out in the "area" will be cleared after inspection, unless they are of importance to others, in order not to cause confusion in the future.
Customs breaks
- Last bite: A small, unprocessed branch is transversely in the killed Wild carcasses set (mouth). It symbolizes the last meal before death.
- Holiday break: Like the Schützenbruch, but not wetted with sweat (blood). Worn by hunters at festive gatherings.
- Mourning break: This break is similar to the Schützenbruch, but is worn on the left side of the hat with the needle or leaf underside facing outwards. At the funeral of a fellow hunter, the hunter goes to the grave, takes off his hat and throws the broken grave into the open grave.
- Bed: At the meeting point of the hunters, the jointly made prey ( stretch ) is placed on a bed of fragments.
The use of fractions by the hunter is a hunting tradition. Since natural material is used for all quarries, there is no risk of polluting the environment or the hunting area. However, in today's intensive and rapid forestry there is a risk that breaks will be overlooked or postponed. Because of this, alignment tapes and the like are more noticeable, but have to be collected again.
The application and execution of the fractions may vary regionally.
If there are no fair types of wood available at the point where the game was caught (was shot), the hunter may use the type of wood that is most common there (for example beech) without violating custom. For the break of the holiday season and the break of mourning, however, the right types of wood are essential.
literature
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaur's large hunting dictionary. Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5 .
Web links
- Overview of different fractions (private page)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haseder, p. 126 ff.